Written on 08-06-20 I have now been writing these COVID-19 Edition Punks The Muse columns for 14 weeks. They are helping me to survive this…
Written on 8/04/2020 I last went to work 147 days ago. Nearly half a year, living in the United States of COVID-19. It has been…
Written on 07/25/20 Today I did yard work by the patio of my rented house. I’m trying to improve it so I can enjoy it…
Written on July 28, 2020. Today, I feel like I have nothing to write about. I feel like when I was a little boy and…
So, like you (probably) I struggle to some degree with COVID 19 depression. There are those days I just don’t want to get out of…
So, I don’t want to write about the plague today, or creeping (galloping?) fascism in the good ol’ USA, or orange mold in the White…
Paradoxically, writers in general are simultaneously notoriously reclusive and remarkably sociable. To do our work, we must spend hours alone with words, reading and writing…
Written on 07-14-2020 As advised, I try to follow a “living in the time of COVID-19” schedule. It goes something like this: 5:15 a.m. –…
THINGS TO DO ON MY FOURTH MONTH OF SHELTERING IN PLACE Sleep inGet up at 5 a.m Purchase a backflow incense burner Spend half an…
Written on 07-06-2020 A week from today it will be exactly four months — one-third of a year! —that I have been sheltering in place….